Alexandre Sanguinetti

Alexandre Sanguinetti is a French politician, born the March 27th 1913 in Cairo (Egypt), and deceased the October 9th 1980 with Saint-Mandé (the Valley-of-Marne).

Biography

Alexandre Sanguinetti was born in Cairo on March 27th, 1913, wire of Joseph Sanguinetti, civil servant with the Egyptian ministry of the Interior, and older brother of Antoine Sanguinetti, future vice-admiral of squadron.

He makes his studies with the college Stanislas with Paris, with Paris and , and letters the Faculty of Law of the Cairo Angers and obtains an arts degree. In the years 1930, it militates with the Camelots of the King, youth organization of the French Action.

In 1941, it is named administrator of the Jewish goods in Tunisia. It engages, at the beginning of 1943, in the army of Africa, and takes part in June 1944, with the battalion of shock, with the catch of the isle of Elba, where it loses a leg.

IVe Republic

From June in November 1946, he is press attaché of François de Menthon, Minister for the Nation's economy in the provisional government chaired by Georges Bidault. In 1952, it côtoie Jean-Louis Tixier-Vignancour and Jacques Isorni in the “Center of connection for the French unit”. It launches out in the businesses; they turn badly and he escapes from little from the bankruptcy.

Active member of associations of war veterans, it is elected, in 1956, general secretary of the Committee of action of associations of war veterans (CAANAC) and, for this reason, writes and pronounces with colonel Bourgoin, on July 7th, 1957 as a public with Algiers, the solemn oath “to be opposed by all the means to all measurements which would threaten the integrity of the territory and the French unit”. In 1957 and 1958, it uses the power of the CAANAC to prepare by all the means, including violence and the illegal action, the return to the capacity of the Général de Gaulle.

In July 1957, general secretary of the CAANAC, it goes to Algiers with an important delegation of associations of war veterans, among whom, Maxime Blocq-Mascart, the general Touzet of Vigier, Louis de Costier, colonel Bourgoin and Yves Gignac. They are received by the Salan general, commander interarmes in Algeria, and pronounce, with the war memorial, the oath to keep Algeria in France. Of return to Paris, it remains in connection with the Salan general in particular at the time of the business of Sakiet. After the return to the capacity of the de Gaulle general, it goes to Algiers in June 1958, is received by the Salan general who gives him all facilitated to realize of the situation to Algeria. To its return in metropolis, it sends a letter of allegiance to the general Raoul Salan.

Ve République

In October 1958, it becomes one of the collaborators of Roger Frey, general secretary of the new party gaullist, UNR. This one in fact, first of all, its principal private secretary to the ministry for Information (cabinet Debré, January 8th, 1959), its principal private secretary when he is deputy secretary near the Prime Minister (Debré cabinet, February 5th, 1960), then an operations manager when he is Minister of Interior Department (Debré cabinet, May 9th, 1961). It is in these functions that it takes part in November 1960 in the assembly of an operation consisting in causing a secession of Algeria - from which it tries to convince the Général Jouhaud to take the head - leading to an free-Algerian Republic, intended operation, in fact, to throw the disorder among the partisans of French Algeria. To the ministry for the Interior, it leads a fight relentless against his former friends, faithful to French Algeria, who created the secret armed Organization and, for this purpose, does not hesitate to call systematically upon not very advisable individuals (“secret agents”) who will constitute later on the core of the Service of civic action (SAC).

After the independence of Algeria, it begins a political career which leads it to the delegation with the elections of November 1962 where it is elected with the second turn, with the label UNR, against a representative of the Communist party in a district (Great Careers) of the 18th district of Paris. With the National Assembly, he is Member of the Commission of national defense and the armed forces of which he is vice-president and rapporteur of the budget of the budget of the armies.

In parallel, he assumes responsibilities with the general secretary for UNR. He is Minister for the War veterans in the Gouvernement Georges Pompidou (3), from January 8th, 1966 to April 6th, 1967. Thereafter, he is president of the Company of the tunnel under the Mont Blanc before finding the National Assembly in June 1968 like deputy of Toulouse. He chairs the commission of the national defense of the National Assembly during all the 4th legislature 1968-1973. He is general secretary of the UDR of October 1973 in December 1974. One remembers his participation in many radio programs and TV where it defended with eloquence the institutions of Ve République and the ideas gaullists.

It is beaten with the elections of March 1967 by the Socialist Claude Estier in Paris, elected official in June 1968 in Toulouse then finally beaten with legislative of March 1973. Alexandre Sanguinetti becomes, as of July 1973, President of the Office of Scientific research and Technique overseas (ORSTOM) (current IRD), station which it occupies until November 1975. General secretary of UDR of October 1973 in December 1974, he is candidate with the legislative elections of March 1978 in Paris where he is beaten by Paul Quilès.

He resigns of the RPR in December 1978 and declares himself in favor of a candidature of Michel Debré for the presidential election of 1981. He dies of an infarction on October 9th, 1980.

Decorations

Publications

France and the atomic weapon , Julliard, 1964
a new resistance , Plon, 1976
the army, for what to make? , Seghers, 1977 Prone
or citizen?
I have badly with my skin of gaullist , Grasset, 1978
Histoire of the soldier, violence and the capacities , Ramsay, 1979
Open letter with my Corsican compatriots , Albin Michel, 1980
With André Chandernagor: “To reform the democracy? ” , Face-to-face discussion, Balland 1977.

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